1. How does one port be both ejection and feeding? 2. The trigger seems localized to the front end, but the shell is in the back, which means it wouldn't fire. Unless there's an hidden transfer bar along the length of the gun somewhere else
1. How does one port be both ejection and feeding? 2. The trigger seems localized to the front end, but the shell is in the back, which means it wouldn't fire. Unless there's an hidden transfer bar along the length of the gun somewhere else
1. That's not unusual for a pump action shotgun, via a lever mechanism within the port. But the barrels would usually be closer together for that...
2. It's a bullpup design. A transfer bar's a given.
1. That's not unusual for a pump action shotgun, via a lever mechanism within the port. But the barrels would usually be closer together for that...
2. It's a bullpup design. A transfer bar's a given.
In a standard pump-action shotgun, the loading port is on the bottom while the ejection port is to the side like in a regular self-loading firearm. While it is possible for the ejection port to share the same space as the loading port, we're looking at some voodoo-level of internal mechanisms to allow the new round to feed while the spent round is getting punted out of the firing chamber through the same hole.
if we assuming that there is a magazine tube then the design nearly makes some semblance of sense the loading mechanism will be the most complex part I guess
if we assume the magazine tube is on the upper barrel then there should be an elevator ramp that pulls 1 shell from the tube drop it into a waiting slot while the pumping action prepares the ejection process of the spent case as you pull the pump action you start the loading process
how how do we deal with the out of battery safety it seems to me the transfer bar is external and is infact probably connected to the pump mechanism in some way I'm not sure if its the shading but there's a rectangular notch on the lower barrel
It seems like slam fire is the design intent. Now you can pull the trigger and hold onto the barrel for dear life at the same time while pumping the gun as fast as you can.
You probably won't be very comfortable while doing it, but it'll look really crazy.
It's also one of the more popular shotguns among US special force operators in Vietnam principally due to the high reliability inherent in its single-port design.
I still question the utility of a slam-fire bullpup shotgun, though.
tl;dr - It's a bloody bullpup Ithaca 37. Even the model number references it. I am fuckin' blind.